Facets of a Diamond – Blog

In meditation, still and active, one’s self is given over to the Higher Power, to Amida Buddha, to the Great Spirit.

Defined as “the feeling of feeling loved,” “belovedness” is a central concept in Dr. Diamond’s work. In this inspirational video, he discusses the term, along with other core ideas, such as the overcoming of anguish and the difference between “knowledge” and “Knowledge.”

There are so many procedures and techniques, systems and modalities, all proclaiming themselves as therapy. They are entitled to do so only if, whatever the means whereby, they raise the Life Energy, the Healing Power within the sufferer: if they raise the sufferer’s will to be well, if they enhance his Life Energy.

When I want to study the structure of a sufferer’s face, for this determines so much of his vitality, I have him lie down and I sit above the vertex of his head.

Australia’s greatest psychiatrist, Ainslie Meares (1910-86), asked the wise man of Kathmandu, “Do you feel pain?” He said, “Of course I do, but it doesn’t hurt.” Dr. Diamond discusses how we too can live in this enlightened state.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

“They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.”
—Oscar Wilde

There must be infinite, ever-ascending stages of high Life Energy and many names we could use for The Feeling, for God, for Belovedness. One very high stage in particular I have delineated is that of Beauty—to be able to

The True Photographer worships Light.

Inspired by a story told to him by the great Australian writer Alan Marshall, Dr. Diamond discusses the concept of grace: in movement, in sports, and in music.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

The word profit is defined as “the pecuniary gain in any transaction; the amount by which value acquired exceeds value expended”^[1]—so you get more than you give. That seems to me to be selfish. It is not fair. It is not sharing. It should be that what we get is equal to what we give.

All I want to know of a composer, a performer – any artist – is: How close has he come to Knowing his Mother of Love, his Muse?